Authentication
This endpoint is public. It takes no credential and no organisation — it is what our own marketing site and AI answer engines read.
This endpoint takes no organisation id. Your key already identifies the organisation it belongs to, and the response is scoped to it.
Try it
Replace anything in angle brackets with your own values, and the key placeholder with a key from your dashboard.
curl -X POST https://api.zinndigital.com/v1/public/cart \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{ }'Signed in? The API console in your dashboard fills in your real organisation id and your own key, and runs the request against the live API so you can see the actual response. Open this endpoint in the API console
Details
Creates an empty cart with **no organization and no user** and returns its opaque bearer `token`. The token is returned **only here** — nothing can re-derive it from the cart afterwards, so a client that loses it has lost the cart. It is a credential: treat it like one. The cart expires at `expires_at` (24 hours).
Request body
| Name | Type | Required | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|
currency | CurrencyCode | No | ISO 4217 currency code (money is minor units + this code — CLAUDE.md §2.8). |
product_line | string | No | — |
Response
| Name | Type | Required | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|
id | Uuid | Yes | UUIDv7 identifier — sortable by creation time (docs/02 §8). |
token | string | No | The bearer token. Returned **only** from `createPublicCart` — it is absent on every subsequent read, because only its digest is stored. |
status | string<open, converted, expired> | Yes | — |
currency | CurrencyCode | Yes | ISO 4217 currency code (money is minor units + this code — CLAUDE.md §2.8). |
product_line | string | No | — |
expires_at | string | Yes | After this the cart is gone — reads 404 whether or not it has been purged. |
items | PublicCartItem[] | Yes | — |
totals | PublicCartTotals | Yes | Pre-tax totals. Tax appears on the order, once a billing country exists. |
Errors this endpoint can return
422 · 429